For 13 years Pen and Cara have had a tumultuous relationship crammed with bickering and intimacy recrimination and desire. When Cara dies in a car crash Pen is left to cope with a secret widowhood. Along with that burden comes a hidden story of painful and pleasurable memories. With humour and poignancy Hood follows Pen through the week of Cara’s death; through the paralysis of grief and the ecstasy of nostalgia to a point where mourning and making a new life melt into one.